From the Yale University press release by Karen N. Peart via ScienceDaily: Researchers at Yale School of Medicine are able to detect deficits in social attention in infants as young as six months of age…
From the University of York press release via AlphaGalileo: A new study led by scientists at the Universities of York and Bradford has identified the two areas of the brain responsible for our perception of…
From the Ruhr-Universität Bochum press release via EurekAlert!: When people see pictures of bodies, a whole range of brain regions are active. This network is altered in women with anorexia nervosa. In a functional magnetic…
From the Johns Hopkins Medicine press release via EurekAlert!: In experiments on rats outfitted with tiny goggles, scientists say they have learned that the brain’s initial vision processing center not only relays visual stimuli, but…
From the New York University press release via Newswise: We rely on our visual system more heavily than previously thought in determining the causality of events. A team of researchers has shown that, in making…
From the Universität Tubingen press release via ScienceDaily: Even when they are not directly in sight, we are aware of our surroundings: so it is that when our eyes are fixed on an interesting book,…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Research using new technology shows that our ability to imitate facial expressions depends on learning that occurs through visual feedback. Studies of the chameleon effect confirm what…
Spontaneous eyeblinks may be actively involved in a release of attention during cognitive behavior, potentially explaining why people generate eyeblinks far more often than necessary to lubricate the eyes, according to a study. It remains…
From the McLean Hospital press release via ScienceDaily: The long-term use of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) may severely impact the user’s ability to accurately recall the shapes and spatial relationships of objects, according to a recent…
From the UC Berkeley press release: Our eyes may be our window to the world, but how do we make sense of the thousands of images that flood our retinas each day? Scientists at the…